Anime like Hisone to Maso-tan

Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!

Also known as Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!.

Studio: Science SARU , Crunchyroll , NHK Enterprises , Shogakukan , Warner Bros. Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Slice of Life

First year high schooler Midori Asakusa loves anime so much, she insists that "concept is everything" in animation. Though she draws a variety of ideas in her sketchbook, she hasn't taken the first step to creating anime, insisting that she can't do it alone. The producer-type Sayaka Kanamori is the first to notice Asakusa's genius. Then, when it becomes clear that their classmate, charismatic fashion model Tsubame Mizusaki, really wants to be an animator, they create an animation club to realize the "ultimate world" that exists in their minds.



Tags: Drawing , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Otaku Culture , Urban , Surreal Comedy , Coming of Age , Educational , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Tanned Skin , Filmmaking , Ensemble Cast , Meta , Tomboy

Ryuu no Haisha

Also known as The Dragon Dentist.

Studio: Studio Khara
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

The story takes place in Dragon Country. Nonoko is a newly appointed dentist and her mission is to protect the dragon, the guardian of the country, from tooth-cavity bacteria. One day, amid increasingly fierce battles with the neighboring country, Nonoko finds on the dragon's tooth an unconscious boy soldier from the enemy country. His name is Bell, and he has been resurrected from inside the tooth by the dragon—a supernatural phenomenon that legend says occurs before a major disaster. As Nonoko and Bell go through a series of fierce battles, they eventually learn to accept their fate.



Tags: War , Dragons , Military , Reincarnation , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , CGI , Historical , Tragedy , Monster Girl , Body Horror

Kobayashi-san Chi no Maidragon

Also known as Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Lantis , Pony Canyon , ABC Animation , Futabasha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

What happens when a drunken promise leads to living with a dragon? That’s Miss Kobayashi’s new reality when Tohru appears in her life. With a maid-slash-dragon in her home, she’s experiencing a whole new level of domestic bliss! But the dragons don’t stop there. On a mission to find Tohru appears Kanna, a little dragon with a big attitude. Before she knows it, Kobayashi’s got a house full of dragons—one serving tail and the other serving serious moe! Together, they live side by side with only the occasional disaster…well, maybe. But nothing beats coming home to the warm welcome of a dragon maid!



Tags: Found Family , Dragons , Monster Girl , Family Life , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Maids , Magic , Episodic , Anthropomorphism , Urban , Yuri , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Large Breasts , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast , Office Lady , Otaku Culture , Surreal Comedy , Kuudere , Software Development , Bisexual , Nudity

Kouya no Kotobuki Hikoutai

Also known as The Magnificent KOTOBUKI.

Studio: GEMBA , BANDAI SPIRITS , Bandai Namco Entertainment , Bandai Namco Arts , Digital Frontier , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

The story takes place in a barren frontier where people trade goods with each other in order to help each other survive. The Kotobuki Squadron are bodyguards for hire, led by a strict but beautiful squadron leader, an unreliable commanding officer, and a true artisan of a crew chief. Alongside pilots who don't lack for personality, they take to the air in dogfights, letting the engine noise of their Hayabusa fighters ring out in the skies.



Tags: Aviation , Primarily Female Cast , Full CGI , Female Protagonist , Military , CGI , Post-Apocalyptic , Alternate Universe , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Episodic , Guns

Deca-Dence

Also known as DECA-DENCE.

Studio: NUT , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Many years have passed since humanity was driven to the brink of extinction by the sudden emergence of the unknown life forms Gadoll. Those humans that survived now dwell in a 3000 meter-high mobile fortress Deca-dence built to protect themselves from the Gadoll threat.

Denizens of Deca-dence fall into two categories: Gears, warriors who fight the Gadoll daily, and Tankers, those without the skills to fight. One day, Natsume, a Tanker girl who dreams of becoming a Gear meets surly Kaburagi, an armor repairman of Deca-dence.

This chance meeting between the seemingly two opposites, the girl with a positive attitude who never gives up on her dreams and the realist who has given up on his, will eventually shake the future course of this world.



Tags: Dystopian , Post-Apocalyptic , Video Games , Kaiju , Cyborg , Artificial Intelligence , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Augmented Reality , Robots , Found Family , Steampunk , CGI , Tanned Skin , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Slapstick , Satire

Aozora Shoujotai

Also known as 801 T.T.S. Airbats.

Studio: Studio Fantasia , ADV Films
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Romance

When aviation mechanic (and anime fanboy) Takuya Isurugi is transferred to the 801st Tactical Training Squadron, he gets more than he bargained for. Moderated by hard-headed veteran ace Mitsuru Konishi, the "Airbats" are an all-female aerial acrobatic team consisting of loose cannons Miyuki Haneda and Arisa Mitaka, karaoke freak and gambling genius Sakura Saginomiya, and junk food lover Yoko Shimorenjaku. Both Haneda and Mitaka do not get along with each other, and their rivalry worsens when they both fall for Isurugi. But with the entire JASDF having doubts about the team, the Airbats must work as a team or face total disbandment.

Tags: Aviation , Military , Love Triangle , Ensemble Cast , Tanned Skin , Primarily Female Cast , Tsundere , Female Harem , Nudity , Shounen

Kimi no Koe wo Todoketai

Also known as I Want to Deliver Your Voice.

Studio: MADHOUSE
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Slice of Life

The story depicts of the worries, conflicts, and dreams of a high school girl in Shōnan. Nagisa, a girl who is a little impatient because she cannot find her future calling, wanders into a mini FM radio station that has been disused for several years. On impulse, she tries to become a DJ, and her broadcasted words by chance unexpectedly reaches people.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Coming of Age , Iyashikei , CGI , Idol , Lacrosse , Coastal

Blue Thermal

Studio: Telecom Animation Film
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

"I want to experience a love that sparkles!" Arriving from Nagasaki with her wishful mantra is Tamaki Tsuru, who in high school could think only about volleyball. Things don’t begin well, however, when she looks for an extracurricular club to join and proceeds to immediately ding a glider at aviation club tryouts ending up having to work it off. She is initially disillusioned with campus life. Then Kuramochi, the club leader and glider pilot, takes Tamaki under his wing, and from the moment he takes her up for a flight in a glider, Tamaki becomes a captive of the vast beauty of the skies.



Tags: Aviation , School Club , College , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Educational , Foreign , School , Suicide

Area 88 (TV)

Studio: TV Asahi , Group TAC , ADV Films
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance

Deep in the sandy plains of the Middle Eastern kingdom of Asran, Japanese photojournalist Makoto Shinjou travels to the remote airbase Area 88 to document the activities of the mercenaries who destroy the country's enemies for a living. Among their ranks is Shin Kazama, a Japanese ace pilot who was tricked by his former best friend into signing a contract with the Asran's fighter squad. Because of this, he lost his career as an airline pilot and the chance to marry his fiancee Ryoko Tsugumo. Now, Shin has three choices in order to leave Area 88 and return to Japan: serve the mercenary group for three years, earn US$1.5 million, or desert the base, risking imminent death.



Tags: Military , Aviation , Foreign , Shounen , Gore , Gyaru

Kemono no Souja Erin

Also known as Erin.

Studio: Production I.G , Trans Arts , NHK Enterprises
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy

In the land of Ryoza, the neighboring provinces of Shin-Ou and Tai-Kou have been at peace. Queen Shinou is the ruler of Ryoza and her greatest general, Grand Duke Taikou, defends the kingdom with his army of powerful war-lizards known as the "Touda." Although the two regions have enjoyed a long-standing alliance, mounting tensions threaten to spark a fierce civil war.

Within Ake, a village in Tai-Kou tasked with raising the Grand Duke's army, lives Erin, a bright girl who spends her days watching the work of her mother Soyon, the village's head Touda doctor. But while under Soyon's care, a disastrous incident befalls the Grand Duke's strongest Touda, and the peace that Erin and her mother had been enjoying vanishes as Soyon is punished severely. In a desperate attempt to save her mother, Erin ends up falling in a river and is swept towards Shin-Ou.

Unable to return home, Erin must learn to lead a new life with completely different people, all while hunting for the truth of both beasts and humanity itself, with tensions between the two regions constantly escalating.



Tags: Coming of Age , Tragedy , Animals , Conspiracy , Veterinarian , Female Protagonist , Environmental , Politics , Philosophy , Boarding School , Matriarchy , Teacher , Time Skip , Rural , War , Adoption , Historical , Kids